celluloid

[sel-yuh-loid] /ˈsɛl yəˌlɔɪd/
noun
1.
a tough, highly flammable substance consisting essentially of cellulose nitrate and camphor, used in the manufacture of motion-picture and x-ray film and other products.
2.
motion-picture film.
adjective
3.
Informal. of or involving motion pictures.
Origin
former trademark; cellul(ose) + -oid
Examples from the web for celluloid
  • He came up with a single camera scheme, using a celluloid band of film.
  • Scenes were laboriously captured on celluloid, at great expense.
  • Back home, he finds he is losing trade to a rival who sells newfangled celluloid beads.
  • Any celluloid still out there is in risk of deteriorating.
  • Share your favorite celluloid band names in the comments section below.
  • Film is not film: celluloid is going the way of vinyl records as movies are distributed digitally.
  • It's certainly violent: blood practically drips off the celluloid frames.
  • Good as it is in celluloid form, it could have been better if the adapter had essayed a few new ideas in mapping out the script.
  • As a character she may be more patchwork fakery, made up of bits of celluloid, than a dimensional character.
  • Insert convex celluloid or cotton between eyeballs and eyelids to prevent slipping and sinking of eyelids.
British Dictionary definitions for celluloid

celluloid

/ˈsɛljʊˌlɔɪd/
noun
1.
a flammable thermoplastic material consisting of cellulose nitrate mixed with a plasticizer, usually camphor: used in sheets, rods, and tubes for making a wide range of articles
2.
  1. a cellulose derivative used for coating film
  2. one of the transparent sheets on which the constituent drawings of an animated film are prepared
  3. a transparent sheet used as an overlay in artwork
  4. cinema film
Word Origin and History for celluloid
n.

transparent plastic made from nitro-celluloses and camphor, 1871, trademark name (reg. U.S.), a hybrid coined by U.S. inventor John Wesley Hyatt (1837-1900) from cellulose + Greek-based suffix -oid. Used figuratively for "motion pictures" from 1934. Abbreviated form cell "sheet of celluloid" is from 1933 (cf. cel).